Bloom vs. Web

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Bloom vs. Webb Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) and Bloom's Taxonomy are used to evaluate course materials and develop class activities that call for more than a parroting of facts, considered by both tools as the lowest level of learning. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. This became a taxonomy including three overlapping domains; the cognitive, affective and psychomotor. He believed in having the knowledge, interpreting the information, applying what has been learnt, and finding the underlying structure of the communication. The affective domain includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The five major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex. Both Webb and Bloom label application of knowledge as a critical milestone. Instructors can use questions such as "Which of these terms doesn't describe an elephant?" and provide choices where all but one apply. The Depth of Knowledge is the degree of depth or complexity of knowledge standards and assessments require; this criterion is met if the assessment is as demanding cognitively as the expectations standards are set for students. Completely aligned standards and assessments requires an assessment system designed to measure in some way the full range of cognitive complexity within each specified content standard. Norman Webb identified four levels for assessing the DOK of content standards and assessment items. I feel that as a future teacher, these theories will be very important in my classroom. I will strive for success by using such methods as memory, using games to help the students remember the material so that they will know it come test time. Also, I feel that

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